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• Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

  John Scalzi

  Reading, Writing, People

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• PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

  Diane Wakoski

  Acceptance, Stuff, Celebrate

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• I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Shoes, Feet

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.385

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• Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Oil, Goes On

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• When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of all your limbs; but without health, the works of all your limbs are nothing"; and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Men, Sick

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• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blessed, Practice, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

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• Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Men, Good Man

  Martin Luther (1915). “Works of Martin Luther: With Introductions and Notes”, p.747, Library of Alexandria

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• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

  Parker Stevenson

  Play, Done, Television

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• The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Long, Giving

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• Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Real, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Father, Mean, Heart

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Attitude, Habit, Work Habits

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• True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide behind their own good works. This is the reason that self-righteous people are so angry with gospel preachers, because the gospel does not spare those who will not submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ!

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Mean, Self

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• On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Looks, Lasts, Good Enough

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• Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

  George Lois

  Jobs, People, Good Job

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• We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.

  John Vianney

  Pride, People, Imperfection

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• Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Good Morning, People, Should

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.169, Sandesh S

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• Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Jesus, Catholic, Path

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• Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Husband, Study

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.232-4.

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• The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, Infinite, Doing Good

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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• We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

  Meryl Streep

  Art, Inspiration, Needs

  "Oscar Nominated Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci Cook It Up Over Julie & Julia". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2010.

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• For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

  Krista Tippett

  Our World, Names, Voice

  Krista Tippett (2008). “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It”, p.22, Penguin

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• It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Long, Trying

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.86, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Business, Groups

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• People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

  Jonah Peretti

  Class, People, Citizens

  "BuzzFeed's strategy" by Chris Dixon, www.businessinsider.com. July 24, 2012.

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